After a faboo "extended weekend" - that included our much-awaited outing to see Anything Goes (yay!), and much pottering in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers [a load of dead stuff cleared, and two window-boxes of daffs and a bowl of Iris siberica planted for Spring] - we face the ultimate disappointment. It's over, and another working week has unfortunately begun.
Never mind. With Hallowe'en impending, let's start the week in a most appropriate fashion this Tacky Music Monday with an unlikely combination of legendary ladies and a most bizarre treatment of a Rodgers-Hammerstein classic:
All that, and a snippet of an elderly Boris Karloff, to boot!
Have a good week, dear reader.
Footnote:
Both the original performer of this song (in the Broadway show Flower Drum Song) Pat Suzuki (age 91), and the actress who performed it in its screen adaptation Nancy Kwan (age 82) [actually dubbed by one of Mickey Rooney's wives Miss Betty Jane Baker] are, thankfully, still with us...
I always think planting bulbs is a gesture of great optimism.
ReplyDeleteI see it more as an investment, with great rewards to reap come Springtime... Jx
DeleteShit Im just going to bed...after what seemd many earlybirthday libations. and the day isn't here yet or is it?
ReplyDeleteHappy - hic! Birthday, dear!! [Sorry, was that too loud?]
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We both were "off the leash", apparently.Mine was hardly a rip-roaring wing-ding, but the bin man will know about it! Cheers!
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DeleteHappy birthday, Dinah!
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So, you win the clip of Halloween contest. I had no idea this existed. LOVE IT. Don't know anything about that Valente girl. Glad you had a lovely outing at the theatre. I once played the gangster (who does the little birdie song) in summerstock. I killed. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteI love it, too - quite the find! Jx
DeletePS In the production we saw, they handled Be Like the Bluebird brilliantly, as "Moonface" sang and danced a duet with a blue spotlight.
Have a good week, Jon!
ReplyDelete*goes in search of black wig and fringing*
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I await the photographic evidence, Ms Scarlet! Jx
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